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...Princeton, meanwhile, is quickly cementing a reputation as the cardiac kids of the Ancient Eight. The Tigers overcame a late deficit last weekend with two fourth-quarter TDs. A strong commitment to the run (that also swung the time of possession battle dramatically in Princeton’s favor) kept the skies open for Terrell, who excelled to the tune of 261 yards and three scores...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rating Passers, Ignoring Wikipedia | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...that he reprised at the Hollywood Bowl. In his Flying Circus days he'd start with the verbal legerdemain of a highbrow-sounding verse ("Can a bee be said to be / Or not to be an entire bee / When half the bee is not a bee / Due to some ancient injury") with a simple chorus ("La di dah, one two three / Eric the half a bee / A B C D E F G / Eric the half a bee"). To get them singing along, give them a lazily catchy tune from famous Eric - an idle idol-Idle idyll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...getting much more bang for their euro. "We have a wonderful life in Morocco, so it's easy to understand why more French people are coming to live here," says Vassort, who lives with his wife and lumbering labrador Othello among the serpentine streets of les Oudayas, the ancient casbah of Morocco's capital, Rabat. "The Moroccans are friendly and astoundingly hospitable. The weather is good all year. There's a rich cultural and social life. And with virtually all Moroccans speaking French, language isn't a problem." While most European societies are hotly debating what to do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place In The Sun | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments forbid any mixing of the big-tops and freaks,” said Warland L. “Trey” Kollmer ’07, one of the script’s co-writers. “That’s why the star-crossed lovers can?...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding To Riff on ‘Tent Commandments’ | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

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